Carleton ellis



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLRLETON ELLIS, OF MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

HYDROGEN-FREE CATALY ZER AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

1,320,039. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Oct. 28, 1919. No Drawing. Application filed January 18, 1917. Serial No. 142,302.

To all-whom it may concern: current of h drogen at relatively low tem- Be it known that I, CARLETON ELLIS, a perature. l ickel nitrate which is somecitizen of the United States, and a resident times used on a mineral support for preparof Montclair, in th county of Es x and ing a catalyzing body is not as serviceable State of New Jersey, have invented certain with charcoal owing to the oxidizing action new and useful Improvements in Hydrogenof the nitric acid (or its decomposition rec Catalyzer and Process of- Making products) thereon. Another manner of Same, of which the following is a specificapreparing the catalyzer is to precipitate a. tion. soluble nlckel salt with carbonate of soda This invention relates to a process of or its decomposition products or some other making catalytic material and to the prodprecipitant, subsequently collecting the prenot of such process and relates particularly cipitate, adding preferably a little sugar, to the production of a catalytic base metal dextrin or similar carbon containing bindsuch as nickel in a finely-divided form, in ing a cut and coating charcoal material such a condition as to be not readily oxidizwith t e damp mixture for example by able and to the preferred product of such rolling the same) so as to coat the surface process, namely; pure, finely-divided nickel of the granules with theiinsoluble nickel material of a relatively diflicultly oxidizable compound. character. A catalytic body containing nickel may It has been proposed to prepare catalytic also be obtained by igniting nickel nitrate nickel by reduction of a com ound thereof on an inert supporting material and reducin a current of hydrogen and subsequently ing in a current of ydrogen at the reqto treat or react upon the reduced nickel uisite tern rature. Prolonged heating in a material with carbon dioxid, thereby concurrent 0 nitrogen or atmosphere thereof verting pyrophoric catalyzers into more after reduction affords a catalyst which is stable products. According to the present relatively not easilyoxidizable by superinvention a gaseous body is used which is of heated s preferably a substantially inert character, The hydrogenation procedurewith such a not tending to oxidize the catalytic matecatalyze: may be carried out by bringing rial. hydrogen into contact with the oil and cata- In my application Serial No. 686,988, lyst in any smtable manner. filed March 29, 1912, (now U. S, P t t To recapitulate, my invention relates to 1,217,118) I have described various forms the process of making a catalyzer such as a of caileltytic material, among which is one nickel catalyzer in a form which is relaprepa by treating charcoal with a solutively not readily oxidizable, which process tion containing a metallic salt, the metal of involves reduction of a nickel compound which acts as a catalyzer. such as nickel nitrate and the like with hy- Thus the catalytic compound may be used droglen or analogous reducing gas to form the to precipitate or coat the charcoal with a cata ytic material and in subsequently exmetallic catalyz' bod To this end, igniposing the heated mass to the action of an tion in hydrogen 510111 referably be care- Inert gas such as nitro n whereby a rely controlled as regar s temperature beatively non-oxidizable catalytic material is cause metallic catalyzers are rather sensiobtained and my invention further contemtive to excessive heating and often lose their plates the product of such process, namely: efl'ectiveness entirely if overheated. w nickel by hydrogen which has been washed Salts of nickel may be used in this manwith nitrogen or similar non-oxidizing gas ner for example, nickel sulfate or acetate. to render it relatively non-oxidizable in A satisfactory form of nickel catalyzer may character. be obtained by dissolving nickel hydroxid What I claim is in a suitable ammonia solution and treating 1. The process of making a catalyzer charcoal with this solution. On slight which comprises reducing a nickel salt with heating, the ammonia is expelled and the hydrogen and in passing a current of nitronickel compound precipitated on the chargen over the reduced catalytic material while coal. This material is then reduced in a in a heated state.

2. The process of making a catalyzer adapted for he hydrogenation of fatty oils which comprises incorporating nickel acetate with supporting material, reducing with hydrogen and exposing the heated mixture to the action of a current of nitrogen whereby a catalytic body of a relatively non-oxidizable character 1s obtained.

3. As a catalyst for the hydrogenation of oils, carbon in comminuted form, carrying reduced nickel thereupon, said product being freed from gases having a reducing action.

4. The process of making a catalyzer which comprises reducing nickel acetate with hydrogen and in passing a current of nitrogen over the reduced heated catalytic material.

5. The process of making a catalyzer adapted for the hydrogenation of fatty oils which comprises incorporating a reducible soluble nickel compound with charcoal supporting material, reducing with hydrogen and exposing the heated mixture to the action of a current of nitrogen whereby a catalytic body of a relatively non-oxidizable character is obtained.

6. As a catalyst for the hydrogenation of oils, carbon in comminuted form, carrying reduced nickel thereupon, not besaid prod ing freed from gases having a reducing action, said product being impregnated with free nitrogen.

7. The process of making a catalyzer which comprises reducing a nickel salt with a reducing gas and in passing a current 0 nitrogen over the reduced heated catalytic material.

8. The process of making a catalyzer adapted for the hydrogenation of fatty oils which comprises incorporating nickel comound with supporting material, reducing with hydrogen and exposing the heated mixture to the action of a current of nitrogen whereby a catalytic body of a relatively non-oxidizable character is obtained.

9. The process of making a catalyzer which comprises reducing a metal salt with hydrogen and in passing a current of nitrogen over the reduced heated catalytic material until substantially the entire amount of hydrogen is driven out.

10. As a catalytic material, granular charcoal carrying a, coating of reduced nickel in a finely-divided state, freed from reducing gases.

11. As a catalytic material metallic nickel of high purity in a finely-divided state, free from mods and occluded hydrogen gas, and impregnated with nitrogen gas.

'CABLETON ELLIS. 

